Early Foreign Language Education and the Effect on State-Mandated Standardized Testing Scores

Duda, Kaitlyn Elizabeth (2017) Early Foreign Language Education and the Effect on State-Mandated Standardized Testing Scores. Undergraduate thesis, under the direction of John R. Gutierrez from Modern Languages, The University of Mississippi.

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Abstract

Early foreign language education has been shown to have a positive effect on the performance of students on state-mandated standardized scores. This work gives an overview of the history of foreign language education, as well as a description of a specific program at an elementary school in North Texas. In order to analyze the effects of early foreign language immersion education on the performance of students enrolled in the program at Bedford Heights Elementary school, a statistical evaluation was performed using the STAAR scores of 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students enrolled in both the foreign language immersion program and in the non-immersion classes. These findings support earlier research that students who are exposed to foreign language during early education score better on standardized tests than counterparts who are not given any foreign language exposure.

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